Robert F. Kennedy Jr., who flies around on private planes so as to tell larger numbers of people how they must live their lives in order to save the planet, wrote a column last year on the lack of winter weather in Washington, D.C.

"In Virginia, the weather also has changed dramatically. Recently arrived residents in the northern suburbs, accustomed to today's anemic winters, might find it astonishing to learn that there were once ski runs on Ballantrae Hill in McLean, with a rope tow and local ski club. Snow is so scarce today that most Virginia children probably don't own a sled. But neighbors came to our home at Hickory Hill nearly every winter weekend to ride saucers and Flexible Flyers.

"In those days, I recall my uncle, President Kennedy, standing erect as he rode a toboggan in his top coat, never faltering until he slid into the boxwood at the bottom of the hill. Once, my father, Atty. Gen. Robert Kennedy, brought a delegation of visiting Eskimos home from the Justice Department for lunch at our house. They spent the afternoon building a great igloo in the deep snow in our backyard. My brothers and sisters played in the structure for several weeks before it began to melt. On weekend afternoons, we commonly joined hundreds of Georgetown residents for ice skating on Washington's C&O Canal, which these days rarely freezes enough to safely skate.

"Meanwhile, Exxon Mobil and its carbon cronies continue to pour money into think tanks whose purpose is to deceive the American public into believing that global warming is a fantasy."

I heard an interesting analysis of people like this...they have an amount of money that they can push this type of legislation...and it doesnt affect them in the slightest. so they vote this way to feel better about themselves.

For once can a Kennedy talk about something without bringing up all their dead relatives? Sheesh, move on and live your own crooked life.

We owe a huge debt of gratitude to the hackers that let out the emails on the global warming scam. The wheels have come off that hoax and I’m not sure it would have without those emails. That’s ruined a bunch of socialist politicians plan for control and theft of tax dollars. But they’ll keep trying anyway...

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posted on 02/07/2010 7:57:24 AM PST
by Reagan is King
(Every immigrant who comes here should be required within five years to learn English or leave.)

Unfortunately, in reality, too many Kennedys are available for comment. Fortunately, fewer and fewer Kennedys are available for comment. And. truly fortunately, fewer and fewer Kennedys are around to tell us about their Uncle President and Dad Attorney General.

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posted on 02/07/2010 8:07:00 AM PST
by righttackle44
(Is Obama an Italian or Japanese name?)

Honestly, I am so happy to be out from under this stupid media-driven fantasy of some ersatz lovely, gracious American aristocracy. Every magazine I'd pick up as a teen or a young woman had its obligatory Kennedy-worshiping article and photo spread. Always on TV, always running for office. Crimes and scandals and the overweening air of entitlement.

I remember my astonishment at the horror of Chappaquidick, how appalling was Teddy's avoidance of any responsibility. It was considered punishment enough that he lost the WH.

The legacy of the Kennedys should be the Death of Mary Jo Kopechne, why she died and how she died. Her death is the emblem of that wretched warren of buck-toothed, destructive, immoral, and vulgar human trash!

The Winter of 1960-1961: The stormy pattern of the last couple winters continued with three more significant storms. The first one was December 10-12, 1960. Heavy snow and high winds hit from Virginia into New York. In Virginia, snow fall ranged from 4 to 13 inches in the north and west. There were seven fatalities in Virginia attributed to the storm. The next snowstorm struck on January 19-20 from North Carolina to New York. Virginia saw up to 12 inches. It caused a great traffic jam in northern and central Virginia and D.C.. Two deaths were blamed on the storm in Virginia, due to overexertion and accidents. The third storm struck February 3-5 and hit like a blizzard with severe cold and gale force winds. Eight inches fell in Washington, 2 to 13 inches across Virginia with as much as 36 inches in New York. There four fatalities in Virginia.

March 5-9, 1962, The “Ash Wednesday Storm”: The storm hit Virginia during “Spring Tide” (sun and moon phase to produce a higher than normal tide). The storm moved north off the coast past Virginia Beach and then reversed its course moving again to the south and bringing with it higher tides and higher waves which battered the coast for several days. The storm’s center was 500 miles off the Virginia Capes when water reached nine feet at Norfolk and 7 feet on the coast. Huge waves toppled houses into the ocean and broke through Virginia Beach’s concrete boardwalk and sea wall. Houses on the Bay side also saw extensive tidal flooding and wave damage. The beaches and shorefront had severe erosion. Locals felt the damage from this storm was worst in Virginia Beach than that of the 1933 Hurricane. The islands of Chincoteague and Assateague were completely underwater. When the water receded, hundreds of thousands of dead chickens were left and the Virginia Department of Health indicating it was an extreme health hazard asked all women, children and elderly to evacuate. A million dollars in damage was done to NASA’s Wallops Island Launch facility and an estimated $4 million in wind and flood damages occurred to the City of Hampton. Winds up to 70 mph built 40-foot waves at sea.

Heavy snows fell inland. Big Meadows, in Shenandoah National Park on the Blue Ridge Mountains just southeast of Luray, recorded Virginia’s greatest 24-hour snowfall with 33 inches and the greatest single storm snowfall with 42 inches. Two feet of snow fell from Charlottesville (21 inches) to Luray (24 inches) to Winchester (22 inches) setting new records. Hot Springs (in the mountains northwest of Roanoke) recorded 17 inches of snow, Culpeper 15 inches, and Richmond 12 inches from the storm. Roads were blocked and electrical service was out for several days in some areas.

In our area we had a few burn up because of malfunctioning parts and also due to lightning strikes. One wonders how much the premiums are for lightning insurance or if there is insurance for them. If not, then the cost of all those replacements should be included in the cost of the power generated, along with the smelting of the steel and the other costs.

Having built and slept in igloos, snow caves and snow trenches, I have to tell you this is BS. Fluffy or slush snow will not work, some snow can be compressed into blocks and cut but it takes time. The guests just happened to have a 24' snow saw in their pocket?

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posted on 02/07/2010 5:29:46 PM PST
by DUMBGRUNT
(The best is the enemy of the good!)

I get the point of the quote, but I'd bet a fair bit that it all is pure fiction. Liberal a-holes lie when they don't even have to. Just ask billyBoy, since the relevant Kennedy schmucks have exited the scene.

This Kennedy lunatic has found his greater purpose in life. He’s a messiah like 0bama. He jets all over the world lecturing the commoners on how they are slobs with huge carbon footprints. How the commoners must restrain themselves

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